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Nagan revolver mnenevlom wrote on June 2nd, 2015

This is a revolver of the Nagant system of the 1895 model. It was developed by Belgian gunsmiths - brothers Emil and Leon Nagant, and was produced in Russia at the Tula Arms Plant. Yes, and many other places. I will not dwell on its history in detail (for those who are interested, go ahead to Wikipedia, although there are more interesting descriptions this story), but just talk about what he has inside.

So, the Nagant is a rather late release (this particular one is from the forties of the last century). Caliber 7.62 mm. Double action trigger mechanism. Ammunition: drum for seven rounds. starting speed bullets: 270 m/s. Sighting range shooting - 50 m. Rate of fire: seven shots in 15-20 seconds

Before starting disassembly, make sure that our revolver is not loaded. To do this, open the door on the right side of the revolver and, turning the drum, inspect all its cells - chambers. By the way, unlike most other revolvers, you can load and unload the revolver only through this door. One cartridge! This is the main drawback of its design. Why did the Russian military once turn a blind eye to him, read in the link I once provided.

We turn the ramrod around its axis and push it forward.

We take the extended ramrod to the right and release the axis of the drum. Now it can simply be pulled forward.

The drum is not supported by anything else. It can be squeezed out of the frame to the side.

By and large, the disassembly of the revolver is completed. But this is only the so-called "incomplete disassembly". Let's go further.

To do this, we already need a tool. Especially for such cases, a regular screwdriver with a large wooden handle was included with the revolver (I don’t know where and how it was supposed to be worn). But we will not disturb the historical instrument once again and will use the modern one. We unscrew the upper (!) Screw on the right cover of the revolver.

The screw itself is on the right, and it holds the left cover of the frame. When you unscrew it, the cover can be removed and you can see the firing mechanism of the revolver. Here he is, in front of you.

Now you need to remove the V-shaped mainspring. This is not easy to do - it is tight, and if you stupidly pry it with a screwdriver, you can get it on your forehead!

The removed spring allows you to pull the trigger. On this copy of the revolver, the trigger itself is a separate design. In addition to the drummer, a connecting rod with a spring is attached to it (we will not remove it - there is a very small screw there). This is precisely the part that distinguished the self-cocking "officer's" revolver from the non-self-cocking "soldier's". Yes, in the tsarist army, there were two modifications of the revolver in service, which differed only in the design of the trigger. From the officer it was possible to shoot simply by pressing the trigger over and over again until the drum was empty, and on the soldier before each shot it was necessary to cock thumb trigger. It was once believed that this allows you to save cartridges - they say, cocking the trigger, the soldier will once again think about whether it is worth shooting at all ...

We continue to disassemble the trigger mechanism. We extract the dog - it is simply removed from the trigger. The dog is the most important part of the revolver. And very typical. She turns the drum with each shot, substituting another cartridge under the drummer. And she also shifts the drum forward, "pushing" it onto the barrel. This ingenious solution avoids the breakthrough of powder gases into the gap between the barrel and the drum. Unlike revolvers of other designs, when fired, this gap simply does not exist here!

It's time to unscrew the second screw from the right cover. He holds the trigger guard. In principle, it does not interfere with us, I just want to show that it is also removable.

We take the bracket to the sides. Removing the trigger is still more convenient.

They removed the trigger - it just sits on the axle.

We pull down the slider (by the way, it is also slightly different in the "soldier's" revolver) and release the breech. During the shot, the bottom of the sleeve rests against him and he, together with the dog, moves the entire drum forward.

Now almost everything! I did not pull out the spring-loaded sleeve from the drum and did not remove the handle lining. They are wooden here and already quite dilapidated, and the screws holding them are tightened wholeheartedly. I was afraid to hurt. Also, I did not unscrew the barrel. It is impossible to do this on this particular instance of the revolver. Everyone who is at least in general terms familiar with the "Law on weapons ...", they will understand why. To the rest, I'll just say - it's not right!

Here, the picture is especially for the champions of law and order - I am a law-abiding citizen.

And in the end, just in case, I will give a diagram of the very, that neither is, complete disassembly. It is also called the "explosion diagram" because the object on it seemed to explode!

Nagan model 1892. The history of the model and the perfection of weapons

In 1859, the brothers Emile and Henri-Leon founded in Liege (Belgium) the firm "Fabrique d'Arm E. and L." for the production of personal weapons, which, thanks to successful designs, were successful in the police and the army.

In 1878, it was developed successful model revolver for cartridges of caliber 7.5 and 9 mm. She became the prototype for arr. 1887

In 1893-1895. Leon Nagant improved this model by using the sequential removal of shells in it, developed by the master gunsmith Abadi, the author of his own revolver. But Abadi became famous in the arms world thanks to the drum door. The Abadi door (located on the right in the figure) turned off the trigger when opened and allowed the trigger to be used to turn the drum during loading.

A distinctive feature of the new model was a drum running onto the breech, providing complete obturation of powder gases.

To this day, fierce disputes have not subsided over whether the production costs for the implementation of a complex drum design are justified by an increase in ballistic characteristics.

When in Russia the question arose of replacing the obsolete 4.2-linear (10.66 mm) Smith-Wesson revolver, which had cartridges filled with black powder, in 1893-1895. an arms contest was held. The Revolver of the "Nagant" system arr. 1895. Here are the advantages noted by the commission in its protocol:

reliability in action: for 1004 shots, the revolver made one delay due to a poor-quality cartridge, which was eliminated by pressing the trigger again;

well-aimed and sufficient strength fight;

small weight and dimensions. It was smaller, more convenient, simpler than other similar systems.

During operation, another great advantage was revealed - tolerance to dust, dirt, as well as the ability to repair weapons with improvised means.

Disadvantages of the revolver noted by the commission:

unnecessary complication of the mechanism caused by pushing the drum onto the barrel, which does not pay off with a slight improvement in the ballistic properties of the weapon and gives the prerequisites for a delay - the drum sticks to the barrel. It was the running of the drum that made it possible to use only this revolver as a silent weapon from all big family revolvers;

heavy descent, inconvenient for marksmanship;

a small number of cartridges in the drum, since it was possible to arrange a drum for 8 or 9 cartridges;

slow and inconvenient extraction of cartridge cases and loading of the revolver.

The last drawback was eliminated by Nagant in arr. 1910. It was based on arr. 1895 The new revolver had a drum tilting to the right with the simultaneous removal of all spent cartridges using an extractor located on the axis of the drum. In this case, the drum was supported by the lower part of the tilted door, which also served as a drum lock in the firing position. Double-action trigger mechanism, seven-shot drum; cartridge, caliber and barrel length remained the same.

Revolvers of two modifications were adopted for service in the Russian army:

soldier with a single-action trigger;

officer with double action trigger * .

Revolvers were first produced in Belgium, but since 1898 production began at the Tula Arms Plant. The 7.62 mm revolver caliber made it possible to unify factory equipment for the production of both revolvers and 7.62 mm Mosin rifles.

The first and only modernization was carried out in 1930, which mainly concerned manufacturability and reduction in the cost of mass production. Outwardly, the new revolvers were distinguished by a slightly modified front sight and rear sight.

The release continued until 1945. In 1994, its production was resumed at the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant as a service weapon.

In addition to the main model, there were also produced:

a small number of revolvers with an elongated barrel and stock;

a small batch of shortened revolvers for the officers of the Red Army. These revolvers differed from the main sample not only in the reduced size of some parts, but also in a slightly modified disassembly sequence. The shortened revolver had a length of 200 mm, a barrel length of 87 mm, a height of 120 mm;

training model caliber 5.6 mm for a standard rimfire cartridge;

re-barreled sports revolvers under the "native" cartridge of 7.62 mm caliber.

In addition to the Russian army, these revolvers were in service with a number of other states.

Main characteristics

The appearance of a soldier-style revolver was due to the ingrained opinion that rapid-fire weapons in the hands of "lower ranks" lead to unjustified consumption of ammunition. From the officer's revolver, the soldier was distinguished by an additional detail that prevented self-cocking fire.

Revolver Abadi

Revolvers "Nagant" of Russian production arr. 1895 (above) and arr. 1910

Revolver "Nagan", released in the USSR after the modernization of 1930

A shortened revolver "Nagan", manufactured for the command staff of the Red Army

Design of parts and mechanisms

The revolver consists of the following parts and mechanisms: a barrel, a frame with a handle, a drum with an axle, a double-acting trigger, a mechanism for feeding cartridges and fixing the drum, a mechanism for removing spent cartridges, sights, fuse.

The device of the revolver "Nagant" (soldier's sample): 1 - barrel; 2 - frame; 3 - ramrod tube; 4 - ramrod; 5 - trigger guard; 6 - drum; 7 - movable tube; 8 - tube spring; 9 - drum axis; 10 - breech; 11 - slider; 12 - trigger; 13 - trigger; 14 - connecting rod; 15 - dog; 16 - mainspring; 17 - striker

Trunk

The barrel inside has a channel with four rifling and a widening in the breech for the muzzle of the sleeve.

Outside, the barrel has a threaded stub for connecting to the frame and a limiter belt for a ramrod tube (the belt has a cutout for the end of the tube tide and a line for installing a ramrod tube).

Trunk

Frame with handle

The frame consists of four walls and is integral with the handle.

The front wall has threaded channel for the barrel, a smooth channel for the drum axle and a cutout for the head of the drum axle.

The top wall has a groove for easy aiming.

The bottom wall has a recess for the passage of the belt of the drum, a semicircular cutout for the trigger guard, a threaded hole for the trigger guard screw, the axis of the trigger.

On the rear wall there is an aiming slot, a rear sight, a chute for facilitating insertion of cartridges into the drum, a rack of the drum door with a hole for a screw, a chute for a door spring with a hole for a screw, a drum shield that holds cartridges, a hole for the thin end of the drum axis, a window and a nest for the head of the breech, slot for the nose of the dog, slots for the slider, the axis of the breech.

The handle has an axis for the trigger, an axis for the tail of the trigger guard, a hole for the connecting screw with a side cover, a hole for the nipple of the mainspring.

Frame with a screwed-in barrel: 1 - barrel; 2 - groove; 3 - recess for the belt of the drum; 4 - notch for the front end of the trigger guard; 5 - threaded hole for the trigger guard screw; 6 - axis of the trigger; 7 - axis of the trigger; 8 - sighting slot; 9 - shield; 10 - slot for the nose of the dog; 11 - vertical groove; 12 - hole for connecting screw; 13 - threaded socket; 14 - a smooth hole for the nipple of the mainspring; 15 - back of the head; 16 - ring; 17 - trigger guard axis

Side cover The frame has two sockets for the axes of the trigger and the trigger, a recess for moving the pawl and a tube for the connecting screw.

The frame with the barrel, side cover and trigger guard make up the body of the revolver.

Side cover: 1 - socket for the trigger axis; 2 - socket for the end of the trigger axis; 3 - recess; 4 - tube with a channel for the connecting screw; 5 - wooden cheek

trigger guard has a semicircular cutout with a recess for a mounting screw and a tail with a hole for the axle.

Trigger guard: 1 - semicircular cutout; 2 - tail; 3 - hole

Drum with axle

The drum has a central channel for placing a movable tube with a spring and the end of the axis of the drum, a circular groove and a groove in the channel for the nipple of the drum tube, recesses to lighten the drum, a belt with recesses for the trigger nipple and notches for the door tooth, a notch with rims on the front wall , surrounding chambers, a ratchet wheel with cutouts for the nose of the dog.

Drum axle has a head for fixing it and a channel for a ramrod.

Drum: 1 - ratchet wheel; 2 - central channel; 3 - chamber; 4 - notch (top)
Drum axis: 1 - head; 2 - thin end; 3 - thick end

trigger mechanism

It consists of a trigger with a striker, a connecting rod with a spring, a trigger and a mainspring.

trigger consists of a notched knitting needle, a striker swinging on a hairpin, a toe with a combat platoon, a ledge and a combat ledge for contact with the mainspring, and a recess for the connecting rod with a spring.

connecting rod has a spout for contact with the trigger sear and a protrusion with a hole and limiting bevels for placement in the groove of the trigger.

Trigger has a cranked protrusion for raising and lowering the slider, a sear for cocking the trigger and self-cocking, a recess for the mainspring pen, a hole for the pawl, a tail for pressing when firing, a nipple for fixing the drum, a ledge for retracting the drum after a shot and a hole for axis.

Action spring lamellar, two-fingered, held in the frame with the help of a nipple. The top feather has a protrusion for pulling the trigger back with the help of the trigger ledge after the shot and a platform for contact with the trigger lug. The chainstay provides a forward trigger position and pawl retention.

Trigger with connecting rod: 1 - spoke; 2 - striker; 3 - tail; 4 - combat ledge; 5 - toe with a combat platoon; 6 - connecting rod; 7 - ledge (above)
Mainspring: 1 - ledge; 2 - top feather; 3 - platform; 4 - lower feather (in the middle)
Trigger: 1 - cranked ledge; 2 - nipple; 3 - tail; 4 - hole for the axis of the pawl; 5 - whispered; 6 - ledge (below)

Mechanisms for feeding cartridges, fixing the drum and locking

The mechanism includes the following parts: trigger, pawl, slider, breech, movable tube with a spring and a door with a spring.

Dog has a spout for contact with the teeth of the ratchet wheel and an axle, half cut, for placement in the trigger hole and contact with the lower feather of the mainspring.

crawler has a cutout at the top for the passage of the striker, and at the bottom - a recess for the cranked protrusion of the trigger.

Treasury. Its configuration consists of: a head with a channel for the passage of the striker, a bevel for tilting forward under the action of the slider, a protrusion for returning the slider to its original position and a hole for the axle.

movable tube has a ledge for resting its spring and a nipple for fixing in the opening of the drum.

Dog: 1 - spout; 2 - axis (top)
Slider: 1 - cutout for the passage of the striker; 2 - notch for the cranked protrusion of the trigger (right)

Movable tube and its spring: 1 - nipple; 2 - ledge (above)
Breech: 1 - head; 2 - ledge (right)

Door and its spring: 1 - nipple; 2 - ears; 3 - tooth

Spent cartridge case removal mechanism

The mechanism consists of a ramrod tube and a ramrod with a spring.

Cleaning tube has a tide with a channel for moving the ramrod, a protrusion to hold the drum axis, a cutout in the tide for the ramrod spring tooth, a hole for the ramrod spring screw.

Ramrod has a knurled head and stem with longitudinal and transverse grooves for the spring tooth.

The ramrod spring is lamellar and has a tooth for fixing the ramrod when entering the ramrod groove.

Shompolny tube: 1 - protrusion; 2 - high tide (above)
The ramrod and its spring: 1 - head; 2 - transverse groove; 3 - stem; 4 - longitudinal groove

Sights

They consist of a front sight and a slot (pillar) on the back wall of the frame.

The front sight is movable and has paws with which it slides into the groove of the front sight base on the trunk.

Front sight of a Soviet-made revolver. On the left - options for the front sights of revolvers produced at the Liege factory of Nagant (a) and at the Tula factory before 1917 (b)

Fuse

As a protection against random shots the upper feather of the mainspring protrudes, which, with its protrusion, presses on the ledge of the trigger and takes it to the rear position, removing the striker from the primer cartridge.

Work of parts and mechanisms

Starting position

The lowered trigger with the front protruding part rests against the slider and does not allow the striker, hidden in the channel of the breech head, to move towards the primer of the cartridge.

The mainspring, being in the smallest preload, with its feathers keeps the trigger and the tail of the trigger in the forward position, and the pawl is tilted forward.

The nose of the pawl protrudes from behind the rear wall of the frame and is adjacent to the beveled surface of the tooth of the ratchet wheel of the drum.

The cranked protrusion of the trigger lies on the cape of the trigger, its nipple is recessed inside the frame, and the ledge is retracted to the rearmost position.

The slider is located below the head of the breech and the front plane rests against the beveled protrusion of the breech.

The head of the breech is retracted to the rear position.

The drum is in the rear position and is fixed by the tooth of the door, the ledge of the trigger, the nose of the pawl, and the spring of the drum tube.

Between the front edge of the drum and the rear edge of the barrel, a gap was formed for the free passage of the barrels of the cartridges during the rotation of the drum.

The ramrod is fixed in the axis of the drum.

The trigger is cocked

To cock the trigger, press its spoke, turn it down to failure and release it. The trigger, turning on the axis, compresses the mainspring with its lugs, resting its toe against the cranked ledge of the trigger, turns it with its tail back and, sliding along the sear, jumps into the sear cutout with a platoon and stops. The trigger is cocked.

The trigger, turning under the pressure of the toe of the trigger, feeds up the pawl and the slider.

The dog, resting its spout against the edge of the tooth of the ratchet wheel of the drum, turns it 1/7 of the circle and sets the next cartridge against the barrel bore.

The slider, resting its upper part against the bevel of the breech head, turns it on the axis head first.

The breech, pressing the head on the head of the cartridge, forces the cartridge to enter the muzzle into the broadening of the bore.

The trigger nipple enters the notch of the drum belt and fixes it from turning.

The revolver is ready to fire.

The position of the parts of an unloaded revolver

The position of the parts of the revolver before the shot

Shot

To fire a shot, you must press the trigger.

When the trigger is pressed, it turns on the axis, its cranked protrusion rises and releases the cocking of the trigger from the sear cutout.

The trigger, under the influence of the mainspring, sharply turns on the axis and strikes with a striker on the cartridge igniter primer. After hitting the trigger, under the action of the mainspring on its ledge, it bounces back and leads the striker into the channel of the breech head, not allowing it to protrude from the breech.

Powder gases put pressure on the walls of the sleeve, causing it to expand and fit snugly against the walls of the drum and the annular broadening of the barrel. Complete obturation of powder gases is carried out.

Scheme of operation of the USM when fired

The action of the parts of the revolver when fired

After the shot

After cessation of pressing the trigger, under the influence of the lower feather of the mainspring, it turns on the axis, lowers the pawl and the slider down, removes its nipple from the groove of the drum belt.

The dog, sliding its nose along the tooth of the ratchet wheel, jumps over the next tooth.

The slider, going down, presses on the protrusion of the breech, turns it, forcing its head to move back.

At the same time, the slider with its rear plane rests against the front protrusion of the trigger and takes it back even more along with the striker, protecting it from an accidental shot.

The drum, under the action of the spring of the movable tube and the ledge of the trigger, which presses on the belt of the drum, moves to the rear position.

self-cocking shot

In this case, all parts, except the trigger and hammer, work the same way as when firing with a pre-cocked trigger manually. Therefore, we will consider the interaction of only these details.

In order to fire a self-cocking shot, you only need to pull the trigger.

When the trigger is pressed, turning around the axis, it lifts up the cranked protrusion, which presses on the lower end of the connecting rod, trying to pull it forward and up.

The connecting rod, resting its shoulders against the front ledge of the trigger, rotates it around its axis, compresses the mainspring and cocks the trigger.

Further pulling the trigger causes the rounded end of the protrusion to jump off the end of the connecting rod and release the trigger. The trigger strikes the primer, and a shot is fired.

After releasing the pressure, the trigger under the influence of the lower feather of the mainspring takes its original position.

The cranked protrusion of the trigger, going down, presses on the front plane of the connecting rod and, pulling the connecting rod back, compresses its spring. When the crankshaft passes the end of the connecting rod, the connecting rod, under the action of its spring, moves to the forward position and its lower end again becomes above the rounded part of the cranked protrusion of the trigger.

Revolver disassembly and assembly

Partial disassembly and assembly

1. Push the cleaning rod forward to the full by turning it by the head.

2. Remove the drum axle by sliding the ramrod tube to the line.

3. Remove the drum from the frame by opening the door.

Assembly is carried out in the reverse order.

Incomplete disassembly of the revolver: a - removal of the ramrod; b - extraction of the drum axis; c - drum removal

Complete disassembly and assembly

1. Produce incomplete disassembly revolver.

2. Remove the movable tube of the drum with the spring by turning it until the mark matches the groove.

3. Unscrew the connecting screw of the handle.

4. Separate the cover from the frame by tapping on it.

5. Put the trigger on the combat platoon.

6. Screw the connecting screw into the threaded socket of the handle.

7. Separate the trigger from the frame by pressing the trigger.

8. Take out the dog.

9. Remove the trigger from the axle.

10. Separate the slider from the frame.

11. Separate the breech from the frame by pressing on its lower end.

12. Release the mainspring by holding the trigger guard with your left hand after unscrewing the screw.

13. Separate the trigger guard.

14. Pull the connecting screw out of the handle.

15. Separate the door and its spring by unscrewing the screws.

16. Separate the cleaning rod.

Assembly is carried out in reverse order.

Complete disassembly of the revolver: a - removal of the movable tube with a spring; b - unscrewing the connecting screw; c - compartment of the side cover; g - screwing in the connecting screw; e - removing the trigger from the axle; e - extracting the dog; g - removal of the trigger; h - separation of the slider; and - removal of the breech; k - release of the mainspring; l - removal of the trigger guard; m - unscrewing the door screw; n - ramrod compartment.

Nagant has become a legendary weapon due to its reliability, accuracy and popular popularity. The revolver of the Nagant system of the 1895 model became a legendary weapon. Having passed the First World, Civil, Soviet-Finnish, Patriotic and Japanese war, it continues to be in service as a service weapon.

The prototype of the famous Red Army Nagant was created in the Belgian city of Liege in a small family workshop under the proud name "Arms Factory Emile and Leon Nagant" ("Fabrique d'armes Emile et Leon Nagant"). The factory was founded in 1859 by the Nagant brothers, who repaired Dutch revolvers and along the way developed their own models of firearms.

In 1878, the eldest of the brothers, Emile Nagant, presented to the Belgian military department a six-shot "1878 revolver" of 9 mm caliber, equipped with the so-called "double action mechanism". The hammer was cocked either automatically by pulling the trigger, or manually. This allowed the Belgians to be armed with two models of a revolver: senior officers used weapons with a “self-cocking”, and non-commissioned officers, infantry, cavalry and auxiliary personnel were forced to manually cock the trigger after each shot. The latter version was called the "9-mm revolver Nagant M1883".

A serious flaw in the design of revolvers at that time was the breakthrough of powder gases between the breech cut of the barrel and the front end of the drum. In 1892, Leon Nagant designed the later classic model of the Nagant revolver with a powder gas obturation system, the principle of which was developed by the Belgian designer Henry Pieper.

Nagant revolver received wide recognition in the armies various countries. The Belgian model M1883, converted to the Swiss 7.5 mm cartridge, was adopted by the Luxembourg army. And the Swedish army not only bought Nagant revolvers of the 1886 model for a 7.5-mm cartridge, but also from 1897 began to produce them itself in the city of Huskvarna. Only in the period from 1898 to 1905. The Swedes produced 13,732 units of the Nagan M1887 revolver. The Serbs and Norwegians, in turn, also began to provide their army with the “model 1893” already modified by the Swedes. 12.5 thousand revolvers for Norway were produced in Liege, 350 units in Husqvarna and several units in the Norwegian Kongsberg. Even Navy Argentina ordered Nagant revolvers for American caliber .440 at German factories.

The appearance of high-quality rapid-fire weapons did not go unnoticed in Russia either. Just in late XIX in. there is a need for massive rearmament Russian army. A competition was announced, the prize of which was a huge government order from Russian Empire for the supply of arms. Naturally, the most famous gunsmiths in the world hurried to take part in the competition. In accordance with the terms of the competition, Leon Nagan was again forced to remove the “self-cocking” and remake the weapon for the Russian 7.62-mm caliber. Nagant's main opponent was Henry Pipper with the M1889 "Bayar" revolver model. True, Nagan's life was facilitated by the fact that he had already received awards from the Russian military department - a bonus of 200 thousand rubles in gold based on the results of a rifle competition.

As a result, the Nagant revolver was recognized as the best. The gunsmith demanded for a patent for his revolver at that time a crazy amount - 75 thousand rubles. The Russian military did not pay, but appointed a second competition, while determining a premium of 20 thousand rubles for the design of the revolver, 5 thousand for the design of the cartridge, as well as Russia receiving all rights to the winning model, including production as at home, and abroad, without any additional payments inventor.

And again, the Nagant revolver turned out to be the best. At the request of the officers, the "double action mechanism" was returned. As a result, the Russian army, as well as the Belgian, received two versions of the Nagant revolver: an officer's double action and a soldier's non-self-cocking. The design of the revolver, already in the Russian version, was finally approved in the spring of 1895, and on May 13 of the same year, by decree of Nicholas II, the Nagant revolver was put into service.

True, under the terms of the contract, Russia was supposed to purchase 20,000 revolvers within three years, produced at the Leon Nagant and Co. factory in Luttihe (Liège, Belgium). But the Belgian side was obliged to provide tools and templates for launching the production of revolvers in Russia.

In 1897, Leon Nagant donated revolvers made by his own factory to the Tsar, Feldzeugmeister General Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich and the Minister of War, apparently hoping to receive additional orders for the supply of weapons from Belgium. However, in the same year, a decree was issued on the purchase of American and British machine tools for installation at the Imperial Tula Arms Plant, and by June 1901, 90,000 domestic-made revolvers had been produced. At the same time, if the purchase price of the Belgian revolver was 30-32 rubles, then the Tula "revolver" cost only 22 rubles 60 kopecks. The state order for the five-year plan from 1895 to 1904 amounted to 180 thousand weapons. In time, the manufacture of one such revolver took 30 machine-hours.

One of the first battle baptisms of the Russian version of the "revolver" occurred on June 3, 1900, when the Russian troops pacified the so-called "Boxer Rebellion" in China. The commander of the consolidated company of the 12th Siberian regiment, lieutenant Stankevich, shot two attacking Chinese soldiers.

In 1903, the production of revolvers dropped sharply. But when did it start Russo-Japanese War, the Tula gunsmiths were ordered to produce 64,830 revolvers, but only 62,917 units were produced. And according to the decision of the commission created after the war in 1908, revolvers began to be produced only by orders of specific military units.
Before World War I, on the basis of the 1895 revolver, a carbine with a barrel length of 300 mm and an integral butt and a revolver with a barrel length of 200 mm and a removable butt were developed. At the same time, the production of revolvers did not stop either during the revolutionary years, or during civil war. Nagant became the most famous revolutionary weapon, and in Russian the gunsmith's surname became a household name and any revolver was called a revolver. From 1918 to 1920 alone, 175,115 Nagant revolvers were produced.

In post-revolutionary Russia, the "officer" version of the revolver remained in service, with a double-action trigger mechanism (USM). The Nagant revolvers were recognized as obsolete only in 1930, after the TT pistol of 1930 was adopted. However, their production continued until the end of the Great Patriotic War, and even after that they still remained in service with private security (VOKhR), including the protection of railways.

In the 1920s, the Mitin brothers developed a revolver silencer - the so-called "Bramit device", which made it possible to successfully use the revolver during reconnaissance and sabotage operations of the Red Army during the war.

During the Great Patriotic War, the revolver was in service with the Red Army, the Polish Army, the 1st Czechoslovak Corps, the Romanian infantry division named after Tudor Vladimirescu, the Yugoslav Infantry Brigade, the French Normandie-Niemen Fighter Aviation Regiment. In total, more than 2 million revolvers of the Nagant system were produced in Russia.

Characteristics

The performance characteristics of the revolver Nagant

Characteristics
Caliber mm	7,62
Length mm	234
barrel length mm	114
Number of grooves in the bore	4
Weight without cartridges g	750
Weight with cartridges g	837
Trigger pull kg	1,5
Trigger force when firing self-cocking kg	6,5
Cartridge drum capacity	7
muzzle velocity m/s	270
Sighting range m	50

The Belgian brothers Nagant (Nagant) began developing revolvers back in the 1880s, and by 1894 they had received patents for a revolver with obturation of powder gases. In 1895, the revolver of the Nagant brothers system was put into service in tsarist Russia, and - in two versions - for officers and the police a conventional revolver with a double-action trigger was provided, and for the lower ranks the revolvers had a simplified single-action trigger. The first deliveries of revolvers to Russia were from Belgium, but since about 1898 the production of revolvers mod. 1895 (hereinafter, for brevity, I will simply call them Nagans) was established in Russia, in Tula. In Soviet Russia, they were officially in service and only revolvers with a double-action trigger were produced. Nagans were officially declared obsolete in Russia in 1930, with the adoption of the TT pistol mod. 1930, however, the production of Nagans continued until 1950, and revolvers mod. 1895 were widely used both in the war with Finland in 1940 and in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. In total, more than 2 million revolvers of the Nagant system were produced in Russia, and they can still be found in service with the VOKhR (Private Security), including the protection of Russian Railways, while revolvers can be 2 to 3 times older than those who now wear them.

Based on the design of the revolver arr. In 1895, several sports revolvers were developed, both for the native 7.62 mm cartridge and for the 5.6 mm circular ignition cartridge.

Revolver Nagant arr. 1895 had a solid frame and an inseparable drum for 7 rounds of 7.62mm caliber. The trigger mechanism is double action, the long drummer is rigidly fixed on the trigger, the trigger is rebound. Loading and extraction are carried out one cartridge at a time through a hinged door on the right side of the frame, a special extractor rod is used for extraction, partially hidden in the stowed position inside the hollow axis of the drum. The extractor is transferred to the working position by pulling it forward and turning it on a special rocking lever that rotates around the barrel.

From a technical point of view, Nagan became obsolete already 5 years after being put into service - the latest revolvers of such systems as the Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector or Colt New Service, which had drums folded to the side, were simpler and had a greater practical rate of fire. However, revolvers mod. 1895 had certain interesting features, the main of which is the obturation mechanism between the drum and the barrel. In conventional revolvers, when fired, part of the powder gases breaks into the gap between the drum and the barrel when fired, but this problem was successfully solved in Nagant. When cocking the trigger, a special lever moved the drum slightly forward, while the tail of the barrel entered the recess in the drum. In addition, a special cartridge of 7.62mm caliber had an elongated sleeve that completely concealed the bullet inside. The sleeve muzzle was narrowed, and when moving the drum forward, it entered the breech breech, providing additional obturation. This design significantly complicated the revolver device and provided real advantages over traditional systems only if it became necessary to use a revolver with a silencer. Special silencers developed in the 1920s in Russia by the Mitin brothers (“Bramit device”) were successfully used by reconnaissance and sabotage and other units of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War.

In general, the revolver mod. The 1895 was overly complex, slow to load, and had a mediocre ammunition with little stopping power, but on the other hand it was very reliable, had good shooting accuracy and was popular with users.

Revolver Abadi

Revolver "Nagan" Russian production arr. 1895

Revolvers "Nagant" of Russian production arr. 1910

Revolver "Nagan", released in the USSR after the modernization of 1930

A shortened revolver "Nagan", manufactured for the command staff of the Red Army.

Design of parts and mechanisms

The device of the revolver "Nagant" (soldier's sample): 1 - barrel; 2 - frame; 3 - ramrod tube; 4 - ramrod; 5 - trigger guard; 6 - drum; 7 - movable tube; 8 - tube spring; 9 - axis of the drum; 10 - breech; 11 - slider; 12 - trigger; 13 - trigger; 14 - connecting rod; 15 - dog; 16 - mainspring; 17 - striker

The barrel inside has a channel with four rifling and a widening in the breech for the muzzle of the sleeve. Outside, the barrel has a threaded stub for connecting to the frame and a limiter belt for a ramrod tube (the belt has a cutout for the end of the tube tide and a line for installing a ramrod tube).

Trunk

Frame with handle

Frame consists of four walls and is integral with the handle.

The front wall has a threaded channel for the barrel, a smooth channel for the drum axle and a cutout for the drum axle head.

The top wall has a groove for easy aiming.

The bottom wall has a recess for the passage of the belt of the drum, a semicircular cutout for the trigger guard, a threaded hole for the trigger guard screw, the axis of the trigger.

The handle has an axis for the trigger, an axis for the tail of the trigger guard, a hole for the connecting screw with a side cover, a hole for the nipple of the mainspring.

Frame with a screwed-in barrel: 1 - barrel; 2 - groove; 3 - recess for the belt of the drum; 4 - notch for the front end of the trigger guard; 5 - threaded hole for the trigger guard screw; 6 - axis of the trigger; 7 - the axis of the trigger; 8 - aiming slot; 9 - scutellum; 10 - slot for the nose of the dog; 11 - vertical groove; 12 - hole for the connecting screw; 13 - threaded socket; 14 - a smooth hole for the nipple of the mainspring; 15 - back of the head; 16 - ring; 17 - trigger guard axis

Side cover The frame has two sockets for the axes of the trigger and the trigger, a recess for moving the pawl and a tube for the connecting screw.

The frame with the barrel, side cover and trigger guard make up the body of the revolver.

Side cover: 1 - socket for the trigger axis; 2 - socket for the end of the trigger axis; 3 - recess; 4 - tube with a channel for the connecting screw; 5 - wooden cheek

trigger guard has a semicircular cutout with a recess for a mounting screw and a tail with a hole for the axle.
Trigger guard: 1 - semicircular cutout; 2 - tail; 3 - hole

Drum with axle

Drum has a central channel for placing a movable tube with a spring and the end of the drum axis, a circular groove and a groove in the channel for the nipple of the drum tube, recesses to lighten the drum, a belt with recesses for the trigger nipple and notches for the door tooth, a notch with rims on the front wall, surrounding chambers, a ratchet wheel with cutouts for the nose of the dog.

Drum axle has a head for fixing it and a channel for a ramrod.

Drum: 1 - ratchet wheel; 2 - central channel; 3 - chamber; 4 - notch (top)
Drum axis: 1 - head; 2 - thin end; 3 - thick end

trigger mechanism

It consists of a trigger with a striker, a connecting rod with a spring, a trigger and a mainspring.

connecting rod has a spout for contact with the trigger sear and a protrusion with a hole and limiting bevels for placement in the groove of the trigger.

Trigger with connecting rod: 1 - spoke; 2 - striker; 3 - tail; 4 - combat ledge; 5 - toe with a combat platoon; 6 - connecting rod; 7 - ledge (above)
Mainspring: 1 - ledge; 2 - top feather; 3 - platform; 4 - lower feather (in the middle)
Trigger: 1 - crankshaft; 2 - nipple; 3 - tail; 4 - hole for the axis of the dog; 5 - whispered; 6 - ledge (bottom)

Mechanisms for feeding cartridges, fixing the drum and locking

The mechanism includes the following parts: trigger, pawl, slider, breech, movable tube with a spring and a door with a spring.

Dog has a spout for contact with the teeth of the ratchet wheel and an axle, half cut, for placement in the trigger hole and contact with the lower feather of the mainspring.

crawler has a cutout at the top for the passage of the striker, and at the bottom - a recess for the cranked protrusion of the trigger.

movable tube has a ledge for resting its spring and a nipple for fixing in the opening of the drum.

Door. Its configuration consists of ears with holes for mounting on the frame stand, a nipple for fixing the drum when it is loaded, a tooth for limiting the rotation of the drum to the left when the door is closed.

Dog: 1 - spout; 2 - axis (top)
Slider: 1 - cutout for the passage of the striker; 2 - recess for the cranked protrusion of the trigger (right)

Movable tube and its spring: 1 - nipple; 2 - ledge (above)
Breech: 1 - head; 2 - ledge (right)

The door and its spring: 1 - nipple; 2 - ears; 3 - tooth

Spent cartridge case removal mechanism

The mechanism consists of a ramrod tube and a ramrod with a spring.

Cleaning tube has a tide with a channel for moving the ramrod, a protrusion to hold the drum axis, a cutout in the tide for the ramrod spring tooth, a hole for the ramrod spring screw.

Ramrod has a knurled head and stem with longitudinal and transverse grooves for the spring tooth.

The ramrod spring is lamellar and has a tooth for fixing the ramrod when entering the ramrod groove.

Shompolny tube: 1 - protrusion; 2 - high tide (above)
The ramrod and its spring: 1 - head; 2 - transverse groove; 3 - stem; 4 - longitudinal groove

Sights

They consist of a front sight and a slot (pillar) on the back wall of the frame.

The front sight is movable and has paws with which it slides into the groove of the front sight base on the trunk.

Front sight of a Soviet-made revolver. On the left - options for the front sights of revolvers produced at the Liege factory of Nagant (a) and at the Tula factory before 1917 (b)

Fuse

The upper feather of the mainspring acts as a fuse against accidental shots, which, with its protrusion, presses on the ledge of the trigger and takes it to the rear position, removing the striker from the primer-cartridge.

Work of parts and mechanisms

Starting position

The lowered trigger with the front protruding part rests against the slider and does not allow the striker, hidden in the channel of the breech head, to move towards the primer of the cartridge.

The mainspring, being in the smallest preload, with its feathers keeps the trigger and the tail of the trigger in the forward position, and the pawl is tilted forward.

The nose of the pawl protrudes from behind the rear wall of the frame and is adjacent to the beveled surface of the tooth of the ratchet wheel of the drum.

The cranked protrusion of the trigger lies on the cape of the trigger, its nipple is recessed inside the frame, and the ledge is retracted to the rearmost position.

The slider is located below the head of the breech and the front plane rests against the beveled protrusion of the breech.

The head of the breech is retracted to the rear position.

The drum is in the rear position and is fixed by the tooth of the door, the ledge of the trigger, the nose of the pawl, and the spring of the drum tube.

Between the front edge of the drum and the rear edge of the barrel, a gap was formed for the free passage of the barrels of the cartridges during the rotation of the drum.

The ramrod is fixed in the axis of the drum.

The trigger is cocked

The trigger, turning under the pressure of the toe of the trigger, feeds up the pawl and the slider.

The dog, resting its spout against the edge of the tooth of the ratchet wheel of the drum, turns it 1/7 of the circle and sets the next cartridge against the barrel bore.

The slider, resting its upper part against the bevel of the breech head, turns it on the axis head first.

The breech, pressing the head on the head of the cartridge, forces the cartridge to enter the muzzle into the broadening of the bore.

The trigger nipple enters the notch of the drum belt and fixes it from turning.

The revolver is ready to fire.

The position of the parts of the revolver before the shot

Shot

To fire a shot, you must press the trigger.

When the trigger is pressed, it turns on the axis, its cranked protrusion rises and releases the cocking of the trigger from the sear cutout.

The action of the parts of the revolver when fired

After the shot

The dog, sliding its nose along the tooth of the ratchet wheel, jumps over the next tooth.

The slider, going down, presses on the protrusion of the breech, turns it, forcing its head to move back.

At the same time, the slider with its rear plane rests against the front protrusion of the trigger and takes it back even more along with the striker, protecting it from an accidental shot.

The drum, under the action of the spring of the movable tube and the ledge of the trigger, which presses on the belt of the drum, moves to the rear position.

self-cocking shot

In this case, all parts, except the trigger and hammer, work in the same way as when fired with a pre-cocked trigger by hand. Therefore, we will consider the interaction of only these details.

In order to fire a self-cocking shot, you only need to pull the trigger.

When the trigger is pressed, turning around the axis, it lifts up the cranked protrusion, which presses on the lower end of the connecting rod, trying to pull it forward and up.

The connecting rod, resting its shoulders against the front ledge of the trigger, rotates it around its axis, compresses the mainspring and cocks the trigger.

Further pulling the trigger causes the rounded end of the protrusion to jump off the end of the connecting rod and release the trigger. The trigger strikes the primer, and a shot is fired.

After releasing the pressure, the trigger under the influence of the lower feather of the mainspring takes its original position.

Revolver disassembly and assembly

Partial disassembly and assembly

1. Push the cleaning rod forward to the full by turning it by the head.

2. Remove the drum axle by sliding the ramrod tube to the line.

3. Remove the drum from the frame by opening the door.

Assembly is carried out in the reverse order.

Incomplete disassembly of the revolver: a - removal of the ramrod; b - extraction of the drum axis; c - removing the drum

Complete disassembly and assembly

1. Make an incomplete disassembly of the revolver.

2. Remove the movable tube of the drum with the spring by turning it until the mark matches the groove.

3. Unscrew the connecting screw of the handle.

4. Separate the cover from the frame by tapping on it.

5. Put the trigger on the combat platoon.

6. Screw the connecting screw into the threaded socket of the handle.

7. Separate the trigger from the frame by pressing the trigger.

8. Take out the dog.

9. Remove the trigger from the axle.

10. Separate the slider from the frame.

11. Separate the breech from the frame by pressing on its lower end.

12. Release the mainspring by holding the trigger guard with your left hand after unscrewing the screw.

13. Separate the trigger guard.

14. Pull the connecting screw out of the handle.

15. Separate the door and its spring by unscrewing the screws. Complete disassembly of the revolver: a - removal of the movable tube with a spring; b - unscrewing the connecting screw; c - compartment of the side cover; g - screwing in the connecting screw; e - removal of the trigger from the axis; e - extracting the dog; g - removal of the trigger; h - separation of the slider; and - removal of the breech; k - release of the mainspring; l - removal of the trigger guard; m - unscrewing the door screw; n - ramrod compartment.

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The Nagan revolver was developed by the Belgian Nagan brothers towards the end of the 19th century. These revolvers were produced at the royal arms factories in huge quantities, and after the revolution, the revolver began to be produced at Soviet arms factories. Revolvers of the Nagant system were widely used not only during the Second World War, but also after its end. In some paramilitary organizations, weapons such as the revolver were used until the early 2000s.

The history of the creation of the revolver "Nagant"

The second half of the 19th century was remembered for the massive rearmament of almost all the armies of the world. The most advanced pistol at that time was a revolver, which was a real standard of reliable personal handguns for officers and junior officers.

In the Belgian city of Liege, which at that time was considered one of the most advanced European cities in terms of the production of various weapons, there was a small family factory of the Nagant brothers. Their family workshop was engaged in the repair of various systems of revolvers, mainly of Dutch design. Over the years, the Nagan brothers have perfectly studied the design of revolvers, which made it possible for them to first make drawings, and then make their own models of pistols. By the way, in weapon terminology, only single-shot or automatic models of short-barreled small arms are called pistols. Models that have a classic turret layout with a rotating drum are called revolvers.

The first revolver of the Nagant brothers, which became widely known, was the “revolver of the 1878 model of the year”, which was presented by Emil Nagant at the tests of the Belgian military department and passed them with honor.

The revolver of the 1878 model of the year, which had a caliber of 9 mm, had the following main performance characteristics:

The drum of the revolver held 6 rounds;
The revolver could fire both when cocked by hand and without cocking, although it had to spend more strength, which significantly reduced the accuracy of shots;
The bullet had a fairly high stopping power.

A few years later, another revolver of the Nagant system was developed, which was intended for junior officers. This 9 mm caliber model had one feature that reduced its combat qualities - after each shot, the hammer had to be cocked again. "9-mm revolver Nagan M / 1883" was developed with deterioration specifications commissioned by the Belgian army, most likely to reduce its cost.

In total, several modifications were released during this period, which differed in caliber and barrel length dimensions. Since the older brother Emil Nagant soon became seriously ill and almost completely blind, all further developments and improvements were the work of Leon Nagant.

Released in 1886 new model revolver, which not only lost some of the shortcomings of the old model, but also received a new caliber of 7.5 mm. Since the transition to a smaller caliber became obvious in Europe, Leon Nagant was forced to take this measure. At the same time, a bullet fired from a new revolver model still had a sufficient stopping effect. In addition to this feature, the following changes were made to the design of the revolver of the 1886 model:

The overall weight of the weapon has been significantly reduced;
In the trigger mechanism, 4 springs were replaced by one;
Improved overall reliability and manufacturability of the system.

The new model was appreciated not only by the Belgian army, but also by the armies of other European countries.

The adoption by the tsarist army of the revolver of the Nagant system

The Russian-Turkish war showed that the Russian army, like most of the armies of Europe, is in urgent need of modernization and massive rearmament. The Mosin rifle was chosen as the main rifle of the Russian army, and to replace the outdated linear Smith-Wesson III revolver of the 1880 model, a commission was created that developed a number of features necessary for the new military revolver. The description of these features is quite large:

The bullet of the new revolver should have a great stopping power. Since this revolver was supposed to be used, including for fighting cavalry, the bullet had to stop the horse at a distance of up to 50 steps;
The power of the cartridges was supposed to ensure a confident penetration of pine boards with a thickness of about 5 mm by a revolver bullet;
Due to the fact that the mass of the old Smith-Wesson revolver was about 1.5 kg, it was not easy enough to shoot from it. The weight of the new revolver was not to exceed 0.92 kg;
The caliber, barrel rifling profiles and other similar characteristics should have been identical to those of the Mosin rifle, since in the further manufacture of revolvers, rifle rejected barrels can be used;
The new revolver should not have a self-cocking system, since, according to the commission, this adversely affects accuracy;
The speed of the bullet must be at least 300 m / s;
The accuracy of the new revolver should exceed the same parameters of the old model;
Simple and reliable overall design of the model;
Reliability in any conditions, readiness for battle, despite pollution;
The sleeves in the drum should not have been extracted at the same time. Such a strange wish is due to the fact that the reloading of the revolver drum, in which the cartridge cases are extracted at the same time, is much faster. The tsarist command was very worried that there would be many lovers of aimless shooting, wasting state ammunition for nothing. It was with this that the requirement was also connected to deprive the new revolver of the self-cocking system;
The drum must hold at least 7 rounds. At the same time, the cartridges themselves, which were loaded into the drum, had to have a shell bullet and be equipped with smokeless powder.

Since the state order promised huge profits, many large domestic and foreign arms companies hurried to apply for participation in the competition for a new military revolver. In addition to revolvers, several options for automatic pistols were proposed.

In the end, two contenders remained:

A. Pipers, who introduced the M1889 Bayar model;
L. Revolver, with a model of a combat revolver model M1892.

Both 6 charging and 7 charging models were presented at the competition. As a result, the Nagant revolver won the competition, the characteristics of which were more consistent with the stated task. However, there is an opinion that the victory of Leon Nagant was due not so much to the outstanding characteristics of his revolver as to his personal connections among the military. Russian officials. Some believe that the fact that the revolver extracts the shells one by one also played a role.

Since Nagant requested a significant amount of 75,000 rubles for his patent, the competition was declared invalid. The repeated competition had special conditions in which the amount of remuneration was indicated. The premium for the new revolver was set at 20,000 rubles, plus an additional 5,000 rubles for the development of a cartridge for it. In addition, the designer had to give his invention to the buyer, who later could produce it in any quantities, both at home and abroad.

After testing the new revolver, the commission found it fit. In addition, under the influence of the combat officers who were part of the commission, two models were adopted: a self-cocking model for officers and a non-self-cocking model for junior officers. The cartridges of the Nagant system were also adopted for service.

Description of the performance characteristics of the Nagant revolver arr. 1895

The production of a new revolver was established at the Tula Arms Plant;
Weapon caliber - 7.62 mm;
The cartridges that were used for the revolver are 7.62 × 38 mm Nagant;
The weight of the revolver loaded with cartridges was 0.88 kg;
7 cartridges were placed in the drum.

Revolvers of the Nagant system between 1895 and 1945

Before the outbreak of the First World War, the Russian army had more than 424,000 revolvers of the Nagant system, which accounted for about 97 percent of the total need for these weapons. When the first battles began, the loss of weapons was simply catastrophic, so the arms industry began to urgently modernize. As a result of innovations, over 474,000 Nagant revolvers were produced from 1914 to 1917.

The revolver of the Nagant system was a reliable weapon that had a fairly simple design. Dismantling the Nagant was also not particularly difficult. In addition to the fact that the cost of the revolver was low, he still had high maintainability. During and immediately after the revolution, the word "revolver" was used not only for revolvers of any design, but also for automatic pistols.

After a comparative analysis of the two versions of the Nagant system, it was decided to leave the "officer" self-cocking version in service with the Red Army. Although in the 20s the question was repeatedly raised about replacing the revolver with a more efficient short-barreled weapon However, even after the appearance of the TT pistol in 1930, Nagant revolvers continued to be produced.

The cost of a revolver with a set of cleaning tools was 85 rubles in 1939. Revolver cleaning occurs immediately after shooting, and consists in removing carbon deposits from the barrel and drum. In a calm environment, you need to re-clean the barrel and drum, then wipe the barrel bore with a clean cloth for 3 days.

By the beginning of the Second World War, revolvers of the Nagant system were produced in fairly large volumes. During the period from 1932 to 1941, about 700,000 revolvers were produced at the Tula plant. During the Great Patriotic War, the Tula Arms Plant produced about 370,000 more revolvers. It is worth noting that the quality of revolvers of the war years of production was quite low, which was due to the lack of a sufficient number of qualified weapon assemblers.

During the Second World War, it became completely clear that the revolver of the Nagant system was not suitable as a regular military pistol, since it had long been outdated. In 1945, revolvers were taken out of service by the army, but the police used them even before 1950.

The main modifications of the revolver of the Nagant system of the 1895 model

In the entire history of the production of revolvers of the Nagant system, 5 different modifications were produced at the Tula Arms Plant:

A revolver for junior officers and soldiers with a non-self-cocking mechanism. Such revolvers were discontinued in 1918;
Nagant for officers, which was produced until 1945;
Nagan-carbine. Although few people know about the existence of this type of revolver, they were issued for mounted border guards. Nagans-carbines were of two modifications: with a barrel length of 300 mm and a non-removable butt, and with a barrel of 200 mm and a removable butt;
There was also a special "commander's" revolver, which had a shortened barrel and handle. Most often used by the NKVD;
In 1929, the Nagant revolver with a silencer was released.

A small number of Nagans were produced in Poland. During the period from 1930 to 1939, 20,000 revolvers were assembled at the plant in the city of Radom, which received the names "Ng wz.30" and "Ng wz.32".

Overview of revolvers "Nagant" of modern years of release

Currently, two main models of revolvers of the Nagant system are being produced, which are used both as starting and as revolvers for sports shooting. In addition, there are often mock-ups of mass-dimensional (MMG) Revolvers of the Nagant system. The most valuable MMGs are considered to be "hollowed out" versions of combat revolvers.

Nagan "Thunder" is the most popular model of a domestic revolver that uses Flaubert's cartridges for firing. Nagan "Thunder" shoots lead bullets, caliber 4.2 mm. Since the revolver "Thunder" was remade from combat revolvers of the tsarist and Soviet years of production, it is of historical value.

Revolver revolver "Bluff" is one of the most famous starting revolvers in the CIS. Like the "Thunder", it is produced on the basis of combat models of revolvers.

The 1895 model revolver occupies an honorable place in the history of Russian short-barreled weapons. Thanks to the existence of sports and starting modifications, every person who wants to have such a sample in his collection can purchase it for a fairly modest amount.